This afternoon (October 31), the National Assembly discussed in the hall the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance (HI).
After carefully studying the draft law, National Assembly delegate Phan Van Xung (HCMC Delegation) proposed adding regulations on health insurance for relatives of standing militia for many reasons.
According to the delegate, Conclusion No. 41 dated March 31, 2009 of the Secretariat of the 10th Party Central Committee clearly pointed out the need to focus on building and improving the quality of militia and self-defense forces in key national defense and security areas and complex areas, ensuring appropriate policies and regimes for this force.
In practice, during the fight against COVID-19, the militia is the core and important force in the fight against the epidemic. In the fight against the epidemic alone, Ho Chi Minh City has more than 36,000 militiamen participating.
The tasks of these forces are demanding, complex, timely, and operate day and night in remote, border, and island areas with especially dangerous environmental conditions, affecting the health and lives of the regular militia.
The period of performing the regular militia service is 2 years. After the period of performing the service, the regular militia is recognized as having completed their military service.
The standing militia enjoys social insurance (SI) and health insurance like non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) on active duty to ensure the correlation between forces with similar operational characteristics.
In reality, in localities, regular militia members are enjoying the same policies as active non-commissioned officers, but their relatives have not been able to buy health insurance cards using the state budget.
Therefore, the delegate proposed to add regulations on health insurance for relatives of regular militia.
Sharing the same view, delegate Nguyen Hoang Bao Tran (Binh Duong National Assembly Delegation) emphasized that the standing militia is a permanent force on duty in key areas of national defense, especially border communes.
The regular mission is very hard to contribute to protecting the Fatherland, they also receive allowances and after completing the mission are granted a certificate of completion of military service.
Therefore, to help this force feel secure in performing its duties, we recommend that the state support health insurance payments for relatives of regular militiamen.
Commenting on the regulations on subjects participating in health insurance, delegate Tran Quang Minh (Quang Binh National Assembly Delegation) proposed adding the subject "former youth volunteers participating in overcoming the war and building the economy after 1975" to the group of subjects whose health insurance is paid by the state budget.
Delegate Tran Quang Minh said that currently, the Law on Health Insurance stipulates that former youth volunteers before 1975 and former youth volunteers after 1975 who participated in the war to protect the Fatherland, performed international missions in Cambodia, and helped Laos are granted health insurance cards by the state budget.
However, for former youth volunteers after 1975 who participated in overcoming the consequences of war and building the economy in difficult areas, the state budget has not paid or supported them to pay health insurance.
